Japanese GP: Force India Saturday report

Qualifying for this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix was ultimately
cancelled as a result of torrential rain over the Suzuka circuit. After
four separate assessments at half hourly intervals the decision was
taken just before 15:30hrs to postpone ...

Qualifying for this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix was ultimately
cancelled as a result of torrential rain over the Suzuka circuit. After
four separate assessments at half hourly intervals the decision was
taken just before 15:30hrs to postpone qualifying until Sunday morning.

Andy Stevenson, team manager Given the torrential rain we've had
throughout the day the decision to assess conditions and then to finally
postpone qualifying until tomorrow is the right one. The rain hasn't
abated and when the decision was taken the light was also fading, so for
a potential 24 cars to be on track at the same time was just too much of
a risk. We fully support the decision of the FIA and the promoters and
will now put our efforts into optimising our performance for qualifying
and the race tomorrow.

UPDATE: Qualifying will take place at 10:00hrs on 10 October. The cars
won't be in parc ferme tonight, but as per the Sporting Regulations will
be in parc ferme between the end of qualifying and the race start.